We have received your redemption request for the Boba Fett Prototype Armor collectible figure - thank you! This promotion was extremely popular - so much so that Hasbro has to make more figures to fulfill all the orders. As such, there will be a delay in receiving your figure(s). Your order is scheduled to ship on July 20, 2012.

It goes on to say I can cancel if I want. Jeez, I thought for sure this would be a way I could get a new figure sometime before January (which is when I found the TPM wave). Ugh.

I'm going to have to revise my toy run routes to look for some of these places. I know about Big Lots; I get PTE stuff there from time to time, and got a lot of Indy stuff when it was being closed out there, including a couple of German trucks for something like $6 each. I know there are "dollar" stores around here, I just don't know what they're called, though Family Dollar rings a bell.

I picked up the "unmasked" Rocket Grenade Cap, mostly so I could use the head for customs, but it's not a bad figure. I'd prefer wrist or torso articulation over ball-jointed hips, but I don't miss the lack of ankles at all.